Minor in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

The School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences offers a minor with seven different tracks. These specific tracks are designed to give non-majors a background in the environmental and global change issues that face the world. This background both allows a broader exposure and gives a strategic background for many careers. The seven tracks are:

Climate Change

Earth System Physics

Environmental Chemistry

Environmental Science

Geophysics

Meteorology

Ocean Sciences

Program of Study - Climate Change Track

The EAS minor with a Climate Change track is for students in majors outside of EAS who have an interest in understanding Climate Change and Issues surrounding it. Prerequisites required for some of the classes listed below. This minor must comprise at least 15 credit hours, of which at least 9 credit hours are upper-division coursework (numbered 3000 or above).

Approved Electives

Program of Study - Earth System Physics

The EAS minor with an Earth System Physics track is for students in majors outside of EAS interested in applying physical and mathematical principles to environmental problems. Prerequisites required for some of the classes listed below. This minor must comprise at least 15 semester hours, of which at least 9 semester hours are upper-division coursework (numbered 3000 or above).

A maximum of 3 credit hours of EAS 4699 may be included in the EAS minor program.

Program of Study - Environmental Chemistry

The EAS minor with an Environmental Chemistry track is for students in majors outside of EAS that seek to understand and address environmental problems within the context of chemical systems. Prerequisites required for some of the classes listed below. This minor must comprise at least 15 credit hours, of which at least 9 credit hours are upper-division coursework (numbered 3000 or above).

A maximum of 3 credit hours of EAS 4699 may be included in the EAS minor program.

Program of Study - Environmental Science

The EAS minor with an Environmental Science track is for students in majors outside of EAS who have an interest in understanding the Environment and Issues surrounding it. Prerequisites required for some of the classes listed below. This minor must comprise at least 15 credit hours, of which at least 9 credit hours are upper-division coursework (numbered 3000 or above).

A maximum of 3 credit hours of EAS 4699 may be included in the EAS minor program.

Program of Study - Geophysics

The EAS minor with a Geophysics track is for students in majors outside of EAS majoring in science and engineering. Prerequisites required for some of the classes listed below. This minor must comprise at least 15 credit hours, of which at least 9 credit hours are upper-division coursework (numbered 3000 or above).

A maximum of 3 credit hours of EAS 4699 may be included in the EAS minor program.

Program of Study - Meteorology

The EAS minor with a Meteorology track is for students in majors outside of EAS majoring in science and engineering. Prerequisites required for some of the classes listed below. This minor must comprise at least 15 credit hours, of which at least 9 credit hours are upper-division coursework (numbered 3000 or above).

A maximum of 3 credit hours of EAS 4699 may be included in the EAS minor program.

Program of Study - Ocean Sciences

The EAS minor with an Ocean Sciences track is for students in majors outside of EAS majoring in Biology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Prerequisites required for some of the classes listed below. This minor must comprise at least 15 credit hours, of which at least 9 credit hours are upper-division coursework (numbered 3000 or above).

A maximum of 3 credit hours of EAS 4699 may be included in the EAS minor program.

All courses counting toward the minor must be taken on a letter-grade basis and must be completed with a grade of C (2.00) or better.

A maximum of 3 credit hours of transfer credit may be used to satisfy the course requirements for a minor. This includes courses taken at another institution or credit earned through the AP or IB program, assuming the scores meet Georgia Tech minimum standards.

It is the major advisor’s responsibility to verify that students are using only courses from the designated block(s) from the student’s major field of study that are allowed to satisfy a minor program, that they are not using any Core Area A-E courses (including humanities and social sciences), and that they are not using any courses for more than one minor or certificate. Any free elective course used to satisfy the course requirements of the student’s major degree program may also be used to satisfy the course requirements for a minor.